When people say things like, “I’m not God. I don’t have all the answers,” they usually believe they do, in fact, have all the answers.

Certainly, Billy Mitchell, who says that in “The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters,” believes he’s the god of video gaming. Mitchell lurks in the background of the documentary, making proclamations while sporting a limp Prince Valiant haircut, satanic facial hair that’s like a gift to filmmakers who want their villain to be readily identifiable and a legs-spread-wide stance that gives off the cheesy aura of those pseudo-Goth Vegas magicians who were popular a couple of years ago.

The film poses Mitchell against Steve Wiebe, a modest, hard-luck guy who has his own Kong machine and who challenges Mitchell to the world record. Mitchell spends more of the film trying to protect his record than actually playing the game with which he earned it – he’s like a boxing champ, ducking a talented contender – and his reluctance to go kongo-a-kongo with Wiebe makes us increasingly suspicious of his abilities.

Building to what seems to be an inevitable confrontation between good and evil, “The King of Kong” is a twisty, wildly entertaining film, and this comes to you from a guy who cares so little about Kong that he had to Google it to make sure it’s correct to refer to it as a video game.

Director Seth Gordon doesn’t underline Mitchell’s ridiculous behavior or sugarcoat Wiebe’s. He lets us decide for ourselves what’s going on between them, and he keeps the film’s focus on what the game means to the people who play it, not on the idea of winning a goofy contest.

But believe me, with the results up in the air until the very end of the film, you will care who wins the goofy contest. So much so that Gordon will have you sticking around for the credits, during which we finally learn who is the king of Kong.

What: “The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters”

Directed by: Seth Gordon

Rated: PG-13, for language

Should you go? Yes, even if you’re not interested in video games. (By the way, don’t look up the movie on the Internet before you see it, because spoilers abound. But you may want to do some searching afterward. There have been further developments.) ***Â½

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